autrijus writes "After two months of development, I'm glad to announce the release of PAR 0.71. PAR is a Cross-Platform Packaging and Deployment tool, dubbed a cross between JAR and Perl2exe/PerlApp ".
Update: This article was about 0.70, but Autrijus has subsequently found a nasty bug which may cause data loss when using 0.70 on Windows with Perl 5.8.0, and has released 0.71 as an emergency release. Please use 0.71 as soon as it becomes available.
"This major release features truly stand-alone executables (no need to ship libperl or perl5x.dll anymore), customizable icon on Win32, remote PAR (use lib 'http://example.com/foo.par';), multi-architecture PAR files, digital signatures, aggregate PAR files, and the ability to convert CPAN distributions to PAR distributions for easy installation. Let the list know what you think of it!"
